There are general myths going round and around the internetcokelaw as many people put it that China can't engineer jack shit. I mean we've all been there we buy something made in China and it breaks incredibly quickly. My dad for instance went through 5 or 6 of these in one day.
A generic cheapo tin opener which you can buy for 50p (30cents $) in evilmartWalmart. Which made him get angry and throw the last one through the window (breaking the glass) where it put a huge scratch on his car.... he was in a bad mood all day from that until his horse came in. At which all was forgiven..... though this reminds me of my uncle who won the lottery once. He won the top prize. Having been unhappy working in hot food for decades and sacrificed all of his dreams (I'm not so silly). He proceeded to demolish his kitchen and smash everything to little itsy pieces. He did a lot of damage.... it was then announced that several hundred people had won and the prize money was less than the damage he had done to the kitchen heh.
Anyway back on topic.
It is often said China can't engineer jack shit. Media portrayal of things does not help either. For example this story. Whereby in Shanghai and entire building simply fell over.... though what is curious is that the building is pretty much intact the glass and the drapes are still there.
When I see a label that says "made in China", I try to avoid this product - even if I have to buy more expensive one but made in Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada etc. The only sad thing is, that sometimes it's impossible to avoid chinese crap - there are simply no other products in the shop (ie. the same sort but not made in China)!!!
Chinese made products are normally crap because of two main reasons:- Wages, material costs and standards in general are lower, this is 100% the reason why western companies switch production of their products to China, because they make more profit and therefore making the greedy shareholders/senior management happy. The unit costs of products from China are pushed lower and lower to further increase profit and there is where the problems begin, in order to lower costs, lower quality materials must be used, cheaper, lesser trained staff must be employed, less vigorous quality control methods are employed and so on. Reason two, Chinese business ethics are different to those of the Japanese and Korean manufacturers. Where the Japs and Koreans work tirelessly to make their products perfect, robust and reliable, the Chinese are all about volume production and value. also, the total lack of Copyrighting in China makes it pointless and largely not worthwhile to build a solid, well thought of brand (like Sony, Toshiba, Samsung etc) because any great designs or brands developed in China wil certainly be copied and the market flooded within weeks (check out all the counterfeit Chinese products out there for evidence of this) som companies more often than not will not innovate, but merely copy a product to make a quick buck, with very little thought to repeat custom or customer loyalty.
When I see a label that says "made in China", I try to avoid this product - even if I have to buy more expensive one but made in Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada etc. The only sad thing is, that sometimes it's impossible to avoid chinese crap - there are simply no other products in the shop (ie. the same sort but not made in China)!!!
ReplyDeleteChinese made products are normally crap because of two main reasons:- Wages, material costs and standards in general are lower, this is 100% the reason why western companies switch production of their products to China, because they make more profit and therefore making the greedy shareholders/senior management happy. The unit costs of products from China are pushed lower and lower to further increase profit and there is where the problems begin, in order to lower costs, lower quality materials must be used, cheaper, lesser trained staff must be employed, less vigorous quality control methods are employed and so on. Reason two, Chinese business ethics are different to those of the Japanese and Korean manufacturers. Where the Japs and Koreans work tirelessly to make their products perfect, robust and reliable, the Chinese are all about volume production and value. also, the total lack of Copyrighting in China makes it pointless and largely not worthwhile to build a solid, well thought of brand (like Sony, Toshiba, Samsung etc) because any great designs or brands developed in China wil certainly be copied and the market flooded within weeks (check out all the counterfeit Chinese products out there for evidence of this) som companies more often than not will not innovate, but merely copy a product to make a quick buck, with very little thought to repeat custom or customer loyalty.
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